Thermal desalination firm Sidem, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS), has been selected to build a new desalination plant in Fujairah as part of the Fujairah 2 independent power and water project (IWPP).
The plant will be located in Qidfa, produce 590 000 m³ per day of desalinated water, and be linked to a 2,000 MW power plant.
The IWPP is headed by a consortium consisting of the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), International Power and Marubeni Corporation.
The project will feature a hybrid desalination solution, developed by Sidem and fellow VWS subsidiary OTV, combining multiple effect distillation (MED) and reverse osmosis, thus allowing optimal use of the electricity generated by the power plant, especially during the winter months.
"The size of the unit for an MED used to be very limited. Sidem had a massive breakthrough recently, where the size of unit has gone up tremendously, so it is now in the scale of an MSF (multi-stage flashing) plant," explained Dr Mahmoud Al Hindi, general manager of VWS Emirates, pointing out that Sidem recently won a 800 000 m³ per day contract for Marafiq in Saudi Arabia.
The facilities at Fujairah will include 12 MED desalination units, each with a production capacity of 38 500 m³ per day, and a reverse osmosis desalination unit with a production capacity of 128 000 m³ per day. Commissioning of the new plant is scheduled for summer 2010.
Meanwhile, VWS has been awarded a lump sum turnkey project by Palm Water for a sewage treatment plant to treat and recycle domestic wastewater for landscaping and irrigation on the Palm Jumeirah.
"This is the biggest MBR (membrane bioreactor) project in this part of the world for VWS," Al Kindi said of the project, which will increase current treatment capacity to 17 000 m³ per day and use the new Biosep technology for biological sewage treatment.
"With Biosep, we can use any type of membrane. Being a process designer and an EPC contractor, we try and find out what the best membrane is for a particular application. We do not have a tie-up with any particular company," Al Hindi added. Source
The plant will be located in Qidfa, produce 590 000 m³ per day of desalinated water, and be linked to a 2,000 MW power plant.
The IWPP is headed by a consortium consisting of the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), International Power and Marubeni Corporation.
The project will feature a hybrid desalination solution, developed by Sidem and fellow VWS subsidiary OTV, combining multiple effect distillation (MED) and reverse osmosis, thus allowing optimal use of the electricity generated by the power plant, especially during the winter months.
"The size of the unit for an MED used to be very limited. Sidem had a massive breakthrough recently, where the size of unit has gone up tremendously, so it is now in the scale of an MSF (multi-stage flashing) plant," explained Dr Mahmoud Al Hindi, general manager of VWS Emirates, pointing out that Sidem recently won a 800 000 m³ per day contract for Marafiq in Saudi Arabia.
The facilities at Fujairah will include 12 MED desalination units, each with a production capacity of 38 500 m³ per day, and a reverse osmosis desalination unit with a production capacity of 128 000 m³ per day. Commissioning of the new plant is scheduled for summer 2010.
Meanwhile, VWS has been awarded a lump sum turnkey project by Palm Water for a sewage treatment plant to treat and recycle domestic wastewater for landscaping and irrigation on the Palm Jumeirah.
"This is the biggest MBR (membrane bioreactor) project in this part of the world for VWS," Al Kindi said of the project, which will increase current treatment capacity to 17 000 m³ per day and use the new Biosep technology for biological sewage treatment.
"With Biosep, we can use any type of membrane. Being a process designer and an EPC contractor, we try and find out what the best membrane is for a particular application. We do not have a tie-up with any particular company," Al Hindi added. Source
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